70 ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE.

in his Journal, page 19, part of which 1 have here transcribed, to show the similitude between those two languages, whereby it will appear that the language of Siwah and that of the Shelluhs ofouth Atlas are one and the same language.

ENGLISH. SIWAHAN. SHELLUH.

Sun Itfuckt Atfuct Head Achfe Akfie Camel Sheep Cow Lgum Jelibb Tfunest Arume Jelibb Tafunest Mountain Iddrarn Iddra' Have you a horse ? Goreck Ackmar Is derk Achm Milk Achi Akfie Bread Dates Tagor Tena Tagora " Tenia fsing.) Tena (plural.)

South of the Desert we find other languages spoken by the blacks ; and are told by Arabs, who have frequently performed the journey from Jinnie to Cairo, and the Red Sea, that thirty-three different Negro languages are met page 190, I perceive that the short vocabulary inserted corresponds with a vocabulary of the Shelluh language, which I presented to that gentleman some years past.

Plural Iddrarn.

*' Or, Is derk ayeese ?

This is applied to bread when baked in a pan, or over the embers of charcoal, or other fire ; but when baked in an oven it ui called Agarom (g guttural.)

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